Comments on: Calm before the stormhttps://blog.timesunion.com/bikers/calm-before-the-storm/2203/
A blog for motorcycle enthusiastsTue, 14 Aug 2012 14:02:22 +0000hourly1https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.4By: stickhttps://blog.timesunion.com/bikers/calm-before-the-storm/2203/#comment-4779
Mon, 25 Apr 2011 04:26:58 +0000http://blog.timesunion.com/bikers/?p=2203#comment-4779I concur with your summerization Keith. You are welcome.
]]>By: Keithhttps://blog.timesunion.com/bikers/calm-before-the-storm/2203/#comment-4777
Mon, 25 Apr 2011 02:49:05 +0000http://blog.timesunion.com/bikers/?p=2203#comment-4777So, if I get held up at a damn checkpoint, I can thank you. Have you heard the AMA line “loud pipes risk rights”? That seems to summarize this discussion.
]]>By: stickhttps://blog.timesunion.com/bikers/calm-before-the-storm/2203/#comment-4760
Sat, 23 Apr 2011 04:22:58 +0000http://blog.timesunion.com/bikers/?p=2203#comment-4760Then Keith, you are the exception to the rule. It would be easier to tell you what is legal on my bike. lol Im on the other end of the spectrum.
]]>By: Keithhttps://blog.timesunion.com/bikers/calm-before-the-storm/2203/#comment-4706
Tue, 19 Apr 2011 21:23:29 +0000http://blog.timesunion.com/bikers/?p=2203#comment-4706Stick – not every one of us is trying to get away with something. I challenge you to find any of those violation on my or my wife’s motorctcle.

Which violations does your’s have and can you justify them? Oh, yeah, loud pipes…..

]]>By: davidhttps://blog.timesunion.com/bikers/calm-before-the-storm/2203/#comment-4693
Mon, 18 Apr 2011 23:37:58 +0000http://blog.timesunion.com/bikers/?p=2203#comment-4693Be very aware of 4 wheelers
]]>By: stickhttps://blog.timesunion.com/bikers/calm-before-the-storm/2203/#comment-4499
Tue, 05 Apr 2011 14:29:44 +0000http://blog.timesunion.com/bikers/?p=2203#comment-4499Thanks for the info Gary. What cracks me up is that any motorcycle on the road can receive a ticket for atleast one of these violations. I’ll be lucky to get into LG village alive for Americade.
]]>By: Garyhttps://blog.timesunion.com/bikers/calm-before-the-storm/2203/#comment-4487
Mon, 04 Apr 2011 18:43:11 +0000http://blog.timesunion.com/bikers/?p=2203#comment-4487FYI for this years riding season:
The motorcycle only safety enforcement checkpoints are being conducted at=the same time as large motorcycle events. The reason given by law enforcement=is they need a sufficient volume of motorcycle traffic to justify the substantial20number of resources involved. [3] This includes Americade in=Lake George and the Harley Rendezvous=in Duanesburg. Last year a motorcycle only checkpoint was done along the Niagara Thruway at th= PeaceBridge where 780 motorcyclists headed for Canada were=stopped.

Law enforcement will be looking for the following violations at the checkpoints:
Inspection stickers and placement of the sticker
Insurance
375 (35c) -unsafe tires
381(1a) -front headlamp not deployed
Rear plate illumination
381((3) lights- only white or yellow
381(4)-approved red reflector in the rear
381(5)-handlebar height
381(6) – unapproved or no helmet:
381(10) – rearview mirrors
381(11) – exhaust pip es
402(1a)- plate must be secure and mounted between 12-48 inches on the rear=of the vehicle- not at the rear axle
402(1b)-plates must be clean and easily readable
410(1)-registration
411(1)-plates are required to be “conspicuously displayed on the rear” not on the rear axle
411(3) – switched plates
509(2) – license -operating out of class

]]>By: VStarLadyhttps://blog.timesunion.com/bikers/calm-before-the-storm/2203/#comment-4472
Sun, 03 Apr 2011 02:03:51 +0000http://blog.timesunion.com/bikers/?p=2203#comment-4472Thinking more and more about it – but have to toughen up from the winter “sissies”.
]]>By: Big Timhttps://blog.timesunion.com/bikers/calm-before-the-storm/2203/#comment-4427
Thu, 31 Mar 2011 20:13:49 +0000http://blog.timesunion.com/bikers/?p=2203#comment-4427I miss riding so much. there at least I feel a little better now.
]]>By: Rider in CNYhttps://blog.timesunion.com/bikers/calm-before-the-storm/2203/#comment-4426
Thu, 31 Mar 2011 20:11:04 +0000http://blog.timesunion.com/bikers/?p=2203#comment-4426First motorcycle fatality that I know of in CNY…According to the paper, he was at a high rate of speed and weaving in and out of lanes through downtown Syracuse on RT 81..not good….
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